Seeds of Faith: Recent Episodes
Robin Williams
It’s never too late to grow your faith in God. You can be walking through divorce, death of a loved one, financial collapse or any trial one might face in this life. God will meet you as you take the first step towards Him in faith.
Casting Crowns published a song titled Life Songs. How can our one life become a song that stirs the hearts of others? First we may need to be stirred by His songs and promises that ignite our hearts to praise.
Repentance is freedom and a sweet privilege. Luke 7:47 says, “ one who is forgiven little,loves little but one who is forgiven much, loves much. Repentance is necessary, because we are prone to wander and God desires that we will become more like Jesus, so that we can accomplish our purpose in this world.
We can learn to overcome the stronghold of fear and accomplish all God has called us to do in our lives. Hear a short account of my struggle with this and God’s answer to a calm and well balanced mind.
Once we see something in our heart, we will conceive it. Just like a mother births a baby conceived in her womb, we will conceive what the Word says if we picture it in our hearts.
Learn how John Newton, though a prodigal in his youth, was instrumental in influencing countless others after he experienced God’s amazing grace.
Find peace and encouragement from Ruth Bell Graham’s book. Do your part and allow God to do His part.
In this episode I share a testimony of how God brought me to understand how to overcome in prayer. We are all called to have a relationship with God through conversations with Him. There was a time when I needed more power in prayer to overcome the enemy and go through the trials of life. If you need to grow in confidence in prayer, I pray my testimony will encourage you.
There are so many benefits that come from having a fear of God. He will give us an undivided heart when we understand He asks our reverence and honor for our own good.
Listen to scriptures you can pray when you are feeling anxiety, fear, struggling to sleep or feeling discouraged and unsettled. Jesus is the Prince of Peace. Put your trust in His promises and His Word.
God has given us many great and precious promises in His Word. When going through a severe trial, He knows what’s best for us. Grab paper and pen and write down these references.
If you struggle with understanding what the Bible means when it says we are to enter into rest or what Sabbath rest refers to, join me as I read the first chapter of Shelly Miller’s book Rhythms of Rest. This is one of my longest podcasts but I offer this opportunity to connect with the personal journey if one who learned to trust and rest in God in her journey through cancer.
Romans 10:17 “ Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Belief and trust in Jesus and His Words is how we have faith to believe for healing.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. When you go to a physician, they may give you a medication and tell you to take it three times a day. In Proverbs we read that God’s Word is like medicine and healing to our flesh. Meditate on these scriptures and faith will rise in your heart.Like medication, take these words and meditate on them 3 x a day. Increase your faith to believe.
Wondering what 2023 might bring and possibly feeling weary after the trials of 2022? It has been my experience that a time of reflection is helpful as we enter into a new year. I hope these words will encourage you to welcome all God might have in store for you in 2023.
Listen to a review of the teaching about our human spirit. Learn about the importance of allowing the Spirit of God to lead you. Be reminded that we, as believers are called to submit to God, the Father of our spirits ( Hebrews 12:9). He is also called God of the spirits of all mankind ( Numbers 16:22).
Listen as I read the story of Jesus birth in Bethlehem, witnessed by some shepherds watching over their flock that night. They were eyewitnesses to the birth of the One that had been prophesied as the One who would to bring freedom to the people of Israel. He came to redeem all of us. Won’t you invite Him into your life as I did 55 years ago. There is no more faithful friend than Jesus.
Some thoughts from the journal I kept in 2022. Encouraging words from God during isolation. He has given us a covenant of Life and Peace.
Hear a personal story of legacy as I read a beautiful account of Bodie Thoene (author of Elijah Chronicles and more) writes of her grandfather’s family altar of prayer. As we approach Advent, we can build such an altar for our family.
Madeleine L’Engle speaks of how unexplainable the Incarnation. It is love, God’s limitless love enfleshing that love into the form of a human being, Jesus, the Christ.
Richard Rohr invites us to “Remember. All of life is Advent to us. Remembering not only the babe in the manger but the Jesus of Revelation in the final words of the Bible. ( from Preparing for Advent by Richard Rohr).
All things were created and exist through Him and in Him and for Him. He is the first born of all creation, created to reconcile all completely back to Himself.
In Isaiah 11:1-4,10 the prophet prophesies the new life that will one day grow from the stump of Jesse’s family. Bette Dickinson shares words of hope for all.
Christmas Memories can return and solidify our personal experience of believing and trusting in Jesus. A hymn, a special gift, an outdoor Christmas pageant. Take time today to call up a memory or two that birth gratitude in your heart for His coming.
In Luke 1, we read of Mary’s journey to visit her cousin Elizabeth soon after learning she has been chosen to give birth to the Son of God. Thomas Worth shares a story of his own family and how we all need a Cousin Elizabeth.
Meditate on the ways He has shouldered the pain of your burdens and His strength in your life.
When Jesus came to live among us, He sang to the Father and to us in the unmistakable timbre of His life, with perfect pitch.
Listen as Thomas Ryder Worth so beautifully describes how the Lord Jesus leads us through the storms of life, the brokenness of our human condition as our Good Shepherd
How does believing in Jesus, the babe in the manger, mysteriously change our hearts? He is the only one who holds the key to unlock our hearts and make them free of every dread emotion and all the fear and anxiety that this world heaps on our hearts.
Thomas Ryder Worth captures so beautifully the intimate way in which Jesus Christ joins Himself with us from cradle to the grave.
Ponder thoughts about David, a man after God’s own heart and David’s Son (Jesus) and how Jesus fulfills all of our longings.
Is there something in the Incarnation that can give us grace to walk in the same humility of heart as Jesus?
All the people who appear in the first pages of Luke’s Gospel or waiting period the whole opening scene is filled with waiting people. All hear the words do not be afraid. “I have something good to say to you.”
Learn how it is important to bless and nurture your Spirit so that your soul grows healthier.
We have to learn how to become intentional to live from our spirit, how to nourish our spirit so it takes leadership over our soul.
Your heart soul will be enriched as you honor God for His protection,grace, mercy and His unfailing love.
John 3 Nicodemus comes to Jesus in the night desiring to understand the mystery of being born again, followed by a poem about the mystery of His birth.
What can we do to sow faith in our hearts and those around us while experiencing a trial we’ve never gone through before. Take a first step.